These are people that believe that kindly old Mrs. Goldstein next door kidnaps neighborhood children and uses their blood for cookie dough; do you really think that people who shelve The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the non-fiction section are going to be convinced by a photo on the internets? I don't mean to be harshly critical here, but the only more credulous demographic on the planet is "People Who Bought The Boxed Set Of Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of..."

The sad thing, Attorney Corporal Eric Holder has the same type of Insane Thinking as these Idjits, wanting to hold Terrorist Trials in Mid-Town Manhattan.

Unless they are Right Wing Gun Owning Religious Fanatics, "clinging to their God and their Guns" living in Waco, or the Clinton's wanting to appease Castro by sending back a little kid to Havana, then the Law doesn't matter.

"you know how it is in the Middle East so many times: They really need proof or people start believing -- this has been discussed by a lot more people than me -- that many people will not believe that he's dead..."

Ah, we do live in the post-Christian age. No one registers any irony at all.

The good news is, you were already dead. The bad news is you were not given a proper burial. For many pirates, this bad news was quite frightening. It meant that your immortal soul would never have any chance of redemption.

The practice of hanging in chains or irons was pretty basic. The pirate would be hanged until dead. Then his body would be placed in a iron cage or possibly wrapped in chains. This cage was then hoisted on a rafter and left to rot in a public area.

Typically this public place would be a dock where other potential pirates would be able to view it as a warning/reminder of what comes of those who go on the account. Such places as harbor entrances were a favorite for hanging pirates in irons. Gallows Point was one of the most famous paces.

The body would remain on display until there really wasn't anything left to display because of decomposition. At this point the rotting body would most often be dumped in the ocean for fish food or, at best, buried between the tides. It was very rare for a body hanged in irons to be claimed, due to the enormous amount of disgrace attached to such a person and the assumption that whom ever claimed the body was a pirate as well. "

Thus ought he to have been treated. Perhaps a few destroyers stationed nearby to keep the riffraff from claiming his remains, too.

@KristopherYes, we live in a more civilized age and acted accordingly. It was legal. It showed prudence. Had the deceased not reached for something during the event, he would be awaiting trial by judge today. (I don't see how anyone could seat a jury in his case and Judge Judy would have to recuse herself on this one, too.)

That said, I stand by what I wrote. If the deceased acted like a bloodthirsty pirate, then he ought to go out as one! The brutality of the age was meant to deter the activities of it. I could've gone with the tried and true Roman method: Slit the throat and crucify the body, as did Julius Caesar.